I am making a custom distribution, and have a question about the Ubuntu Logo with 5 dots displayed when booting up.
The Ubuntu-Logo-Script in the /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntutext folder has the word ...

I am looking for the specs necessary to build a .desktop file to be used in Ubuntu 11.10.
Many terminal applications or even GUI application do not show on Open with other application tab anymore and ...

I just installed the lastest version of UGENE. I works fine but in order to use it, I have to enter the following in the terminal: cd ugene-1.11.5/ then execute ./ugene -ui to launch UGENE GUI.
This ...

I have a script that updates my desktop background every day with the NASA APOD. Since upgrading to 11.10, that script stopped working, presumably because I'm using gconftool-2 to actually update the ...

I was using a custom keyboard layout. Basically I modified the us-mac layout to fit my ideal of a math-heavy version of the regular us layout that also throws German umlauts into mix. It went well and ...

I have been trying to change my login screen wallpaper to one of my own using ubuntu-tweak. The wallpapers are located in Ubuntu's default wallpaper folder and I have given all users read privileges ...

I am thinking of installing Ubuntu Server then from there install a desktop environment. Then I think ubuntu-desktop will not just include the desktop but other bloat too? How can I just get the GUI, ...

Is it possible to stop Unity from remembering the past search history? If I search for "settings" and then close and reopen the unity dash, the word "settings" is still in the search bar. I want to do ...

What is the line parameter in Thunar's "custom actions" that would play a music directory in a Wine (.exe) program?
I want to put Foobar2000 (and possibly other such applications) in Thunar's Custom ...

I've been using Ubuntu for 2 years and now I want to make my own. I just decided to get the Ubuntu minimal iso for the core of my custom Distro ... but everything seems so confusing!!! could anyone ...

How do I increase the amount of wallpapers that appear on the menu for customizing the desktop with my backgrounds in 11.10?
I added more images to the respective folder in /usr/share/background as ...

I am using a GTK theme which I love except that it doesn't have borders around the windows. If I am on a web page (for example) with a white background and my wallpaper is white I don't know where the ...

I use several workspaces in order to have different context for different works. Therefore, I run the same set of applications in the same workspace repeatedly. And also I run the same application in ...

How can I add packages to the original Ubuntu install DVD.
I'm studing Math at university so after installing Ubuntu on my PC I downloaded math packages from the Ubuntu repositories and I try to add ...

Once I install Ubuntu minimal, then I have option to customize it the way I want.
I can either use it as such with the terminal mode,
Make it ubuntu desktop by apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Make it ...

Since 11.10 you can't change much in the appearance options, just the windows border styles but NOT the background colour like you could do it in Natty.
For some odd reason as I upgraded to 11.10, it ...

I find the Messaging Tray (the bottom bar) in GNOME Shell rather inconvenient. I'm looking for a way to disable it. KRSNA 2 ZED seems to have written an extension for doing just that, but I don't know ...

I would like to create my own Ubuntu derivative with my desktop environment of choice and my preferred set of prepackaged programs.
What base should I start with and what modifications should I start ...

I've seen videos like this one in which a effect appears when the user made a click. What I want it's just the effect only, I don't care the colour of the cursor.
How can I make this effect when I do ...